List of Lithuanians
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By nationality
Arts & Literature
- Donatas Banionis - actor, and star of Tarkovsky's Solaris
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis - famous painter and composer.
- Tomas Venclova - writer and poet
- Vilhelmas Storosta Vydūnas - Prominent Lithuanian writer and philosopher, leader of Lithuanian cultural movement in Prussian Lithuania in the beg. of 20th century.
Politics
- Valdas Adamkus - President of Lithuania.
- Algirdas Brazauskas - the former First secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of Lithuanian SSR, the former president of Lithuania after 1990, prime minister of Lithuania
- Kazys Grinius - politician
- Vytautas Landsbergis - the most outstanding political figure in Lithuania after 1990, professor, the first Head of Lithuania after declaration of its independence in 1990, former speaker of Lithuanian parliament - Seimas, member of European Parliament
- Rolandas Paksas - former President, removed after impeachment.
- Antanas Smetona - The first president of Lithuania in 1919
Scientists
Sports
- Zydrunas Ilgauskas - current NBA player with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Sarunas Jasikevicius - basketball star with several European clubs, currently with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
- Šarūnas Marčiulionis - former NBA player with several teams, used to play for the USSR.
- Arvydas Sabonis - former NBA player with Portland Trail Blazers, used to play for the USSR.
- Darius Songaila - current NBA player with the Sacramento Kings.
Other
- Jurgis Baltrušaitis senior (1873-1944) - art-historian, poet, diplomat
- Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas - pilots.
- Jurgis Kairys - aerobatic pilot, FAI World Grand Prix of Aviation FAIWGPA champion, famous of flight under 10 bridges in Vilnius. He also flew inverted under a bridge in Kaunas.
By birthplace (before 1918) or citizenship (after 1918)
- Elijah ben Solomon - the Gaon of Vilna
- Emma Goldman - Anarchist deported from U.S., feminist, activist.
- Adam Mickiewicz - Polish poet
- Czesław Miłosz - Polish poet and essayist, Nobel prize winner
- Jzef Piłsudski - marshal of Poland
- Rabbi Abraham Issac ha-Kohen Kook (1865-1935) - first Chief Rabbi of Palestine
- Abraham Cahan
- Karl Shapiro
- William Zorach
- S. J. Perelman
- Uriel Weinreich
- Bernard Berenson
- Emmanuel Levinas - prominent philosopher
Note:
In a case when a person was born in the territory of former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and not in the territory of modern Lithuania, only persons, who named themselves Lithuanians or were strictly connected to Lithuania in other way, are included. See also List of famous Poles and List of Belarusians.